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The town beach and the Portal Maya sculpture, Playa del Carmen
Playa del CarmenThe town beach and the Portal Maya sculpture
The City Palace from Lake Pichola, Udaipur
UdaipurThe City Palace from Lake Pichola

Photos: Playa del Carmen by lazyweaver, CC BY 3.0, cropped; Udaipur by Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Playa del Carmen or Udaipur?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Playa del Carmen for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Playa del Carmen’s own page.

Choose Udaipur for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Udaipur’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Playa del Carmen 88, Udaipur 5: Playa del Carmen leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. Playa del Carmen 52, Udaipur 42: Playa del Carmen leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Playa del Carmen 12, Udaipur 66: Udaipur leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Playa del Carmen 66, Udaipur 18: Playa del Carmen leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Playa del Carmen 74, Udaipur 44: Playa del Carmen leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Playa del Carmen 72, Udaipur 68: Playa del Carmen leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Playa del Carmen 78, Udaipur 32: Playa del Carmen leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Playa del Carmen 55, Udaipur 28: Playa del Carmen leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Playa del Carmen 38, Udaipur 48: Udaipur leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Playa del Carmen 52, Udaipur 86: Udaipur leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Playa del Carmen 22, Udaipur 32: Udaipur leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Playa del Carmen 54, Udaipur 45: Playa del Carmen leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Playa del Carmen and Udaipur.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Playa del Carmen
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Udaipur
43match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Playa del Carmen in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Udaipur in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
257 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Playa del CarmenUdaipur

Where the figures come from

Playa del Carmen has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Udaipur has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Playa del Carmen: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Udaipur: 1978-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Udaipur Dabok (20.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePlaya del CarmenUdaipur
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaHindi, English
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Indian Rupee (INR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+5:30
Emergency number911108 or 112
Elevation8 m578 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)50 km from centre137 non-stop destinationsMaharana Pratap Airport (UDR)22 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days-

By the numbers

MeasurePlaya del CarmenUdaipur
City population304,942451,100
People per km²-12,192
Museums within 10 km03
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.